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Caption: "Bakers [sic] Beach," c. 1906. Baker Beach begins just south of Golden Gate Point and extends approximately one half-mile southward to Seacliff Peninsula.

Date: 1906

Caption: "West Point," c. 1925. The United States Military Academy, commonly referred to as West Point, as viewed from across the Hudson River.

Date: 1925

Caption: "Sign for California State Parks." Blueline of drawing by Alfred Eichler of sign for hacienda of Governor Pio Pico, California State Parks, after design by Colonel Wing, Chief Division of Parks. Includes handwritten note attached to drawing and additional annotations. Project for Department of Natural Resources - Beaches and Parks.

Date: 1929

No caption, c. 1905. Two unidentified young boys posing in front of what appears to be a photography studio backdrop.

Date: 1905

No Caption: A Canadian Pacific Banff Springs Hotel sticker, from the McCarthy's' trip to western Canada, 1935.

Date: 1935

No Caption: undated. Photograph shows what appears to be a 12" disappearing coastal artillery gun, mounted on a rotating carriage.

Date: Undated

Caption: "Chief Manitou - Manitou Soda Springs," c. 1923. William McCarthy, wearing a Native American headdress and attire, stands next to Pedro Cajete. Mr. Cajete, better known to many as Chief Manitou, was a Native American of the Tewa tribe near Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was hired to promote tourism in the Manitou Springs/Colorado Springs area of Colorado. He often sold trinkets and posed for photographs with tourists near the mouth of Manitou Cave, resulting in his moniker Chief Manitou.

Date: 1923

Caption: "Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition," "Agricultural Building" and "A.Y.P.E. Seattle Wash." View of the Agricultural Building of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, often referred to as the "A-Y-P." Held in Seattle to celebrate the development of the Pacific Northwest, the fair attracted 3.7 million visitors over the course of its run from June to October 1909. Although most of the fair's buildings have since been destroyed, several of them now serve as part of the University of Washington campus.

Date: 1909

Caption: "Flavel Hotel -- on the Columbia River.," c. 1905-1909. Built at the turn of the century, the Flavel Hotel housed passengers waiting to board steamships of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company bound for San Francisco and other ports. The Flavel family constructed the hotel as part of an effort to establish the town of Flavel on Tansy Point along the Columbia River. The town failed to attract sufficient residents, however, and was annexed into Warrenton by 1918.

Date: 1905

Caption: "An Abandoned Hydraulic Mine near Camptonville Calif.," c. 1920. Hillside ravaged by hydraulic mining, in which a pressurized jet of water washes sediment and gravel into a series of sluices, allowing the heavier gold and gold-carrying sediment to sink to the bottom for removal. California banned this environmentally destructive practice in 1884.

Date: 1920